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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 



TRUE MEMORY 



The Philosopher's Stone 



Its Loss through Adam ¥ Its Recovery- 
through Christ 



By 



MRS. CALVIN KRYDER REIFSNIDER 





Boston 

The Arena Publishing Company 

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Copyright, 1896, 
By Airs. Calvin Krydcr Reif snider. 



All rights reserved. 



ARENA PRESS. 



TO ALL WHO CAN RECEIVE IT AND 
LIVE BY ITS TEACHINGS, I OFFER THIS 
MESSAGE IN LOVING DEDICATION. 



PREFACE. 



Now I say unto you, refrain from these men, 
and let them alone ; for if this counsel or work be 
of men it will come to naught. 

But if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it ; lest 
haply ye be found even to fight against God. — 
Acts v., $&, 39. 



CONTENTS. 



Chapter. Page. 

I. PREPARATION . ... 5 

II. THE REVELATION. What God is. The 
Worlds, how created, how peopled, how 
divided into Societies 9 

III. ADAM, his "Fall" or Materialization. His 

Claim to the Earth. The Serpent ; the 
Garden; Flesh Children. Cain, Abel, 
Enoch. Noah and the Ark . . . 15 

IV. THE FLESH MAN ; he charges the Ills and 

Evils of Life to the Creator. Black, Yellow, 
Red and White Men ; how they originated. 
Babel. Self-love ; Love of Dominion . . 25 

V. ABRAM ; why he worshipped the Sun. Clumsy 

Imitation of God's Work .... 28 

VI. MOSES, copied the Spiritual Law and adapted 
it to the Use of Flesh Men.— The Bible; 
how written. — The Origin of Diseases and 
Sickness. — The First Lie materialized into 
the Serpent. Wild untamable Beasts the 
Creations of Human Passions and False 
Doctrines. — The Zones and Tropics; how 
made by Men. — The Gathering of Domes- 
tic Animals into the Temperate Zone. — 
Marital Troubles. Unfortunate Children. 
— The utter Loss of True Memory . . 30 
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CONTENTS. 
Chaptkk. Page. 

VH. LANGUAGE, its Necessity and its Origin; 

how spoken and taught. Spiritual . . 35 

VIII. THE FLESH MAN, his Soul, Breath and 
Thought; neither leaves Record or Trace 
in the Flesh Body 37 

IX. THE BOOK OF JASHER retained by the 
Spiritual Men. — Utter Vastation of True 
Memory. — The Sun a Dead Body, its Sym- 
bolism. Why worshipped. The coming 
Kingdom 42 

X. KING SOLOMON; his Vision and Prayer; 

why answered 44 

XL THE INNER TEMPLE .... 47 

XII. CHRIST AND THE RED SEA . . 48 

XIII. CHRIST. The Star, the Manger. The Babe. 

Egypt, Galilee, Nazareth and the Wilder- 
ness. — The Tempter. Christ in the Wil- 
derness, hungry and alone from Men, over- 
came the same Temptation to which Adam, 
yielding, fell 54 

XIV. REGENERATION, its Progress ... 61 

XV. THE OPENING OF THE INNER CHAM- 
BER. The Twelve Tribes. Lifting up 
the Serpent. Dropping the Burden. The 
Light, which is the Return of True Mem- 
ory. True Memory, what it is. To re- 
member only the Good. The Lord appears 
to every Man according to that Man's 
State. The Flesh Man is what his Mem- 
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CONTENTS. 
Chapter. Page. 

ory makes him. His Illusions and Delu- 
sions. How led back to True Memory. 
The Lord's Prayer. Who is worthy to say 
it? The Transfiguration. Christ takes 
Disciples into a high Mountain (Exalted 
Spiritual State with Spiritual Sight opened,) 
and shows them His Spiritual Body. The 
Transfiguration, why necessary. Moses 
and Elias present from the Spiritual 
World. Jacob's Ladder. — The Woman 
at the Well 63 

XVI. LAZARUS, his Resurrection. How others 
are raised. What Christ did in the Nat- 
ural Body. Why He must die . . . 88 

XVII. CHRIST, His Sorrows. What His Death 

means. What of Him died 95 

XVIII. CHRIST, His Pathway, His Prayers, Suffer- 
ings, His wonderful Words. Life Eternal. 
Who condemned Him, who crucified 
Him, and why ...... 98 

XIX. THE RISEN CHRIST, His Promises, Revel- 
ations. How only He could approach Men 
and lead them back to God. The Empty 
Sepulchre. The Risen Christ. To whom 
He appeared, with whom He conversed, 
and why. The Temple Spiritual. How 
composed. The Head of the Corner. 
Where only to worship. He showed me 
all. The Pyramids mightier than their 
Builders. The Philosopher's Stone, lives 
wasted searching for it. What it is. How 
it produces good. Its Relation to the 
Memory. Human Knowledge and God's 
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CONTENTS. 
Chapter. Page. 

Knowledge. Nothing ever invented. When 
Man will know all. Now an Impostor. 
His Acts, Words and foolish Beliefs. 
The Way out of Bondage. Man's Works, 
his Civilization, so-called Rise and Fall, 
and unforgotten. Why? What He showed 
me in the Spirit. Where God is. His 
Relation to Business, Work, Factories. 
What becomes of all Man's Work, Palaces 
and Houses. — Kings and Murderers, Queens 
and Harlots, not God's Work. The King- 
doms, Empires and Republics all tottering. 
Why? Individuals, Church and Nation all 
striving for Power. The Origin of Disease, 
Pestilence, vicious Animals, Wars, Earth- 
quakes, Cyclones and Tornadoes. These 
are all subject to Man's Will. Bible also 
clouded for Men. The Spirit of the Word 
within the Letter. The Lord wants no 
Earthly Tabernacle. Two grinding, one 
taken. This World shall again become 
spiritual, a World of Beauty. When and 
how. The Churches. Man a Receptacle 
for God's Word. All saved who accept 
His great Love and follow His Footprints. 
Every Step is given, the Path is clear, the 
Journey is mapped out. The World grows 
better, but there will be Murders so long as 
the State murders; Men will steal so long 
as the Nations steal, and there will be 
Adulterers so long as the Churches adulter- 
ate the Truth. Man's Work after Death 
(so-called) according to his Work on Earth. 
Christ's dying Words for Men to imitate. 
The way of the Return to True Memory . 106 
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CHAPTER I. 

From my earliest childhood I had been 
preparing myself under unseen guidance 
to do some peculiar kind of work. What 
it was to be had not been revealed to me, 
but I had been constantly urged to make 
myself ready. If I sought my chamber 
in childhood and lay down upon my bed 
by the window to look out and muse on 
the mysteries of life about me there came 
a silent Monitor whose face I could not 
see, but whose voice seemed to speak 
inside of me: " Do not lie here idle. You 
must learn to read and write, and under- 
stand the use of language, to do the work 
you were created to do." 

So persistent was this voice that I would 
get up and get my books, and read and 

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memorize them. When quite young my 
mother taught me the beautiful story of 
the Incarnation and had me memorize the 
first chapter of St. John, and took great 
pains to show me that the Babe in the 
manger described by St. Matthew was the 
Light of the World described by St. John. 
And this something that urged me to 
study always helped me with my lessons 
and made them a joy to me. It would say: 
" Learn this and yon will know that with- 
out stndy. Cling to and always keep with 
you the memory of the Babe born in 
Bethlehem ; of his escape from death by 
Herod by being sent into Egypt ; his 
return to Israel by way of Galilee ; dwell- 
ing in the city of Nazareth in order to 
fulfil the prophets, ' He shall be called a 
Nazarene'; His baptism of John in the 
river Jordan ; being led up of the Spirit 
into the wilderness to be tempted of the 



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devil ; His fast and His temptation ; His 
answer to the tempter ; following minutely, 
step by step, the record of His disciples 
from their different planes. If I would 
learn this, believe it, I would know all ; 
that nothing could be hidden from me and 
that in that knowledge came man's re- 
demption." 

I believed ! My faith was sure ! God 
knows I believed, and thus He set apart 
for me a work to do that required only a 
knowledge of using the human language, 
for the work to be done would be unfolded 
to me as A Scroll which I should read 
and write in the language of my fellow 
creatures. 

At a certain age I found that my senses 
of sight and hearing were more acute than 
those of others, and afterwards when I 
closed my eyes I could see clouds of beau- 
tiful colored light, and figures of beauty 



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about some people, or just the reverse 
about others. At last I heard that this was 
called spheres. And I could generally tell 
the quality of the person and even the 
thoughts by those spheres. But I was 
timid, afraid of being misunderstood or 
called a spiritualist, a thing that from child- 
hood I abhorred. 

This preparation continued until the 
following revelation was given me : 



CHAPTER II. 

THE SCROLL. 

As it was unrolled I read, and wrote it 
down : "God is a spirit, Omnipotent, Om- 
nipresent, Omniscient, and through His 
divine Wisdom He created from Himself 
worlds. Not by His might but by the 
power of His Spirit, the Word ' Let there 
be!' 

"And there came forth a spiritual -nat- 
ural world, His footstool. And upon this 
footstool were images, likenesses of Him- 
self, called men, and they were male and fe- 
male, perfect in all their spiritual organism, 
recipients of His divine Love and Wisdom. 

"And they worshipped God and remem- 
bered that He was their father from whom 
they received every blessing, and they 

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took no thought for themselves for they 
knew that He would provide all things 
for their good and their happiness. And 
they loved each other and worshipped the 
Lord God Jehovah and served Him in 
good works. 

" A beautiful world it was, and there was 
no need of sun for God was their light. 
And there was no speech necessary, for 
each could read the other's thoughts ; they 
were transparent. Husbands loved their 
wives as the highest, holiest part of them- 
selves, their God-given love principle ; and 
wives loved their husbands as their strong- 
est God-given principle, their wisdom and 
rationality; and from these spiritual unions 
were births of numerous children called 
Goods and Truths and Charities. 

'And there were societies on this spirit- 
ual-natural world, of spiritual men and 
women, which differed the one from the 



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other only according to their reception of 
the divine proceeding, that is, Divine Good- 
ness and Divine Truth which proceeds 
from the Sole Fountain of all Life. 

"They realized that everything in the 
universe had reference to goodness and 
truth. And when in conversation, they 
could read the nature of their friends by 
their thought creations which formed a 
a sphere about them ; for instance, a 
man from one Society approaching another 
knew by the clouds of beautiful colored 
light the condition of their love and 
faith in God, and charity towards each 
other. In their presence were beautiful 
birds, happy infants, flowers, fruits, laugh- 
ing waters, soft, sweet music. And all day 
long they were occupied in good uses; 
doing good to each other and loving each 
ether; not the person, but the good they 
perceived in them and the truth that 



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flowed from them, knowing that all good 
and all truth came from God, and that they 
must see it and acknowledge it, and return 
thanks for it. 

" Oh, such a beautiful world ! God looked 
upon it and pronounced it all good, and 
He loved it, and His love gave it light and 
heat, and His children who worshipped 
Him from His footstool knew that the 
light was Divine Truth and the heat Di- 
vine Love; for their memory was true 
memory ; they could feel the Divine pres- 
ence and see Him in everything, for they 
lived under His Divine law. And they 
knew there was yet a higher state of bliss 
to which they could attain, and from men 
become angels, mounting upon good deeds 
like stepping-stones to His throne, and in 
successive states rise to become arch- 
angels. They knew this because they per- 
ceived that those who excelled most in 



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love and faith and good works rose higher 
in the scale; their music was pitched to a 
higher key ; their sphere a shining light, 
gleaming at a greater distance from them. 
Did these children of God desire to visit 
their friends they might go upon the 
wings of love, or it was possible to visit a 
Society upon horses swift and white, which 
they called understanding. Others used 
birds, called thoughts, to convey them, but 
in this world there were only heavenly 
hues. And there were trees and lakes and 
plants and flowers." 

Reading the scroll with all these beau- 
ties of God's creation, my heart going out 
in silent adoration for His Divine good- 
ness, I was startled by a new phenome- 
non : — A dark cloud came, and a voice 
saying, "We are dying, dying. We must 
hold court and see who shall make The 
Record of our creation — our life — before 
the Adam exterminates True Memory." 



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The court held that those who remem- 
bered most were they who had forgotten 
least and they should keep The Record; 
or else in dying they should die and leave 
no trace behind that they had ever lived in 
this beautiful world that God in his good- 
ness and love sent forth. 



CHAPTER III. 

THE RECORD. 

In the beautiful world God made for 
man, spiritual man, all was spiritual, for 
God is a spirit, and He created man in 
His own image and in His own likeness. 
He endowed him with all His own attrib- 
utes ; that is, capable of receiving them as 
the plant receives dew, the flowers shades 
of color and perfume, and the goblet water 
or wine, with memory and rationality ; and 
this memory at first always served to re- 
mind him of the One Source of all Life, 
Love, Goodness and Truth ; and the good 
that man did to his fellows he knew he did 
from the Lord ; and the love he gave his 
neighbor he knew was from the Lord. 
But there were different Societies, higher 

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or lower, according to their reception of 
Divine Goodness and Divine Truth. It 
came to pass that a Society, called Adam 
appropriated the goods and the truths to 
themselves. And very soon they were 
lost to the view of other Societies because 
they were hidden by a dark cloud — such 
a thing as had never been seen in all the 
world — a total absence of light at a dis- 
tance ; and when they came nearer, the 
men from other Societies saw, and behold, 
a man and a woman earth-bound ; that is, 
they could not float in the air any more, 
but their feet were firm and heavy, as were 
all their limbs ; their veins had become red 
with blood, their framework ossified, and 
Eve, the wife, was at all times separated 
from her husband ; they no longer blended 
and appeared to others as only one man 
or one woman ; and the man spoke to 
them in a strange language that they 







A beautiful world it was, and there was no need of sun for God 
was their light. * * * And when they came nearer 

the men from other Societies saw, and behold, a man and a 
woman earth bound. 



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could not understand, and made discord- 
ant tones unlike anything that had ever 
been heard in the world before. 

As time passed Adam could no longer 
see those from other Societies when 
they came. He had lost true vision and 
could see only, the gross things about 
him, which had all become like himself. 
But they understood from him that the 
earth upon which he lived was his own 
and all that dwelt thereon. He tilled the 
ground and ate of food that grew out of 
the ground, and at last killed the beautiful 
birds and innocent lambs, which, under a 
kind of corresponding law, became gross 
and earthly like himself. And there were 
no beautiful children about them ; they 
were alone. And it came to pass as men 
visited these Adam people they learned to 
understand them; and God came to Adam 
and said: "You have appropriated to 



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yourself the goods and truths, or eaten, as 
you would now say, of the fruit of the gar- 
den ; for the intellectual principle was as a 
garden, and what you developed therein 
was as fruit of a tree ; and in so doing 
you have brought upon yourself, first 
fear, then shame. 

" I did give thee the power to love the 
good and the true, and love was repre- 
sented by thy spiritual partner. Thou 
hast perverted love. Thou sayest that the 
woman, representing love, deceived thee, 
and the woman sayeth that the serpent 
(self-love), did tempt her. 

" I divided the heaven from the earth and 
did give thee the light of truth for thy day 
and showed thee that the absence of truth 
was darkness. I did make the waters and 
everything that moved therein. And the 
earth, thy natural mind, and everything 
thereon. And I did gfive thee dominion 






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over thyself — free will. The heaven rep- 
resented thy internal, the earth thy ex- 
ternal mind. And I gave thee all that 
was good for thee, and I pronounced all 
good. Wherefore hast thou eaten of the 
tree which should cause thee to arrogate 
to thyself the knowledge of good and evil ? 
As I made thee thou wert happy and free 
as the birds and the flowers ; but thou hast 
loved self more than Cod and taken upon 
thyself to know and to be. 

" Behold the serpent, thine own sensual 
principle represented by a serpent, hath 
deceived thee. It told thee that in know- 
ing good and evil thou wouldst be a God. 
Behold thou knowest thou art naked and 
art ashamed. To be naked signified thou 
wert innocent as I created thee, but in the 
gross earth (flesh) to which thine own lust 
hath lowered thee thy form is no longer 
an image and a likeness ; it hath lost its 



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power to reflect good and truth and its 
spiritual beauty. Thou hast covered thy- 
self with a gross covering ; thou hast in 
thy sensual thoughts materialized thy 
heavenly spiritual form which was most 
beautiful as I created thee. Thou art 
indeed a gross earth man. And thus 
dying thou shalt die before that spiritual 
body can again be free. Thou hast cursed 
the ground whereon thou standest. Thou 
hast taken upon thyself all that I would so 
gladly have done for thee. And why? 
Gave I not food and drink suited to thy 
needs ? Did I not clothe thee as I clothed 
the flowers and the birds whose hues 
changed with man's thoughts? And man 
changed his own garments with his own 
states of thought or feeling when pure, as 
I created him. 

"As memory dies out of thee thou wilt 
forget me or say that I have done this to 
thee. 



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"And, woman, thou hast my pity. Thou 
art now at thy husband's mercy. He must 
provide for thee and thou must in this 
condition be subject to his law and suffer. 
What I made a delight to thee becomes 
now in this gross flesh a pain and sorrow. 
Flesh children will be born of thee. Self- 
made cares, all of them. 

" Dominion ! I gave thee dominion over 
thyself in giving thee freedom and now in 
thy arrogance thou wouldst have it over 
all the world. Wherever thy children go 
it will be the same. They will materialize 
their thoughts instead of spiritualizing 
them and thus the whole world will be 
come the grave of men instead of the 
habitation I did make it for them. 

" But I will never leave nor forsake man. 
Though he forget me I cannot forget him 
for I can see hidden things. He has only 
covered the real man. I must prevent his 



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destroying himself utterly and teach him 
how to regain the blessings he has volun- 
tarily cast away." 

And it came to pass that as Adam spoke 
with men they listened to him and turned 
from God. They, too, must possess the 
world. They must own all their eyes 
could see. And those who were not thus 
infected passed utterly out of sight for 
they were still spiritual men and the flesh 
men could no longer see them. Some lost 
only a part of their spirituality and those 
were they whom God made his prophets. 

Adam and Eve had earth children, and 
they called the first Cain (or faith), and 
the second Abel (charity or love) , because 
they still remembered that all their chil- 
dren before their fall to the earth state 
were Faiths and Charities, and Goods and 
Truths. But the name Cain showed that 
he represented faith alone without charity 



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in him, and his work of tilling the ground 
did not elevate him, but God promised to 
spare him even though he had slain his 
brother who represented charity (Abel.) 

And Enoch departed from his father 
Adam into a place even more destitute of 
goodness ; because each successive earth 
child lost more and more of True Memory 
and wandered spiritually still further from 
his God. 

And God saw that men in the flesh 
became very wicked as they multiplied 
upon the earth, and lo ! He numbered his 
days to one hundred and twenty years. 

Of all the men of earth Noah, the 
grandson of Methuselah, who had repre- 
sented the eighth church, still retained a 
memory, (inherited) of God, and was less 
wicked than the rest of earth men, so 
that in the great flood of wickedness and 
falsity that came upon the world he and 



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his sons Shem, Ham, and Japhet, and 
their wives and all that God showed them 
to take with them, were saved because they 
were not yet so corrupt and so filled with 
violence as the other men of flesh had 
become. They were in a condition repre- 
sented by an ark that could safely ride the 
waters of falsity, and they still had love, 
represented by the dove, with them, al- 
though they, too, had falsities represented 
by the raven. 



CHAPTER IV. 

the record — continued. 

And lo ! it came to pass that the flesh 
man forgot how his own ills had come 
upon him, and he then, being able to 
judge only from appearances, and know- 
ing, too, that God was all, laid off all his 
miseries upon God ; attributed all his evils 
to the Divine Creator. 

God 'had created him a spiritual man 
whose thoughts created images of spiritual 
things. He fell of his own free will into 
lower planes, and ultimated or reproduced 
nis sensual thoughts upon the sensual plane. 

He had perverted every internal prin- 
ciple and made them servants to the ex- 
ternal ; thus man could no longer under- 
stand man. They could deceive each 

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other by the language they used as readily 
as they could convey their true meaning. 
Their countenances became thick veils of 
flesh to hide their feelings and emotions, 
but their flesh revealed the spiritual quali- 
ties they had perverted most, and changed 
color ; some became black, and they were 
those who had perverted Truth ; others red, 
who had perverted Love; others yellow, 
who had perverted Charity ; the white race 
retaining most of Truth. The color of 
the eyes (representing perception) also 
changed ; and they grew more wretched on 
the earth. 

They began to have teachers from those 
who pretended to know most, and they 
established worship. They sacrificed ani- 
mals and birds upon altars instead of 
yielding up their own lusts and desires. 

They were mighty in their own conceit, 
and with their own hands would build of 



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brick and mortar a city and a tower whose 
top would reach unto heaven.- They had 
forgotten that God had given them a 
spiritual body, a temple in which to wor- 
ship Him in spirit and in truth, and in 
which through love, and good deeds, and 
prayers to Him they could reach heaven, 
always be in conjunction with Him. But 
self, love of self, dominion over others had 
ensnared them, and those who instructed 
them led them further from God because 
they would have the people follow them, 
and obey them, and serve them. But still 
God did not forsake them even in their 
wickedness, for He knew they would 
utterly perish. He knew all, but He 
would have them voluntarily return to 
Him even as they had voluntarily turned 
away from Him. 



CHAPTER V. 

the record — continued. 
Abram, still having a remnant of good, 
was remembered of God, but he had lost 
True Memory; he did not know God. 
And thus when he sacrificed he sacrificed 
to the material sun. His memory was 
dim of spiritual things. Faintly lingered 
the memory, coming like a light from 
some far away chamber of his soul, that 
God was the spiritual Sun, and a true 
memory of Him was the only light that 
could redeem mankind ; yet in ignorance 
he offered sacrifice to the material sun. 
Fading like the light of truth from off the 
face of the earth was True Memory in this 
man; but God spake to him, and blessed 
him, and likewise Isaac and Jacob. 

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Fading, fading, disappearing from their 
shortened vision, their earth-bound spirits, 
men lost view of the spiritual world in 
which they had lived, and like themselves, 
they had materialized by gross thoughts 
everything about them, and at last they 
began to fashion tools of brass and iron 
and clay, and gold and silver and wood. 
How clumsy these imitations of God's 
works ! How gross and sensual became 
their thoughts of Him when they fash- 
ioned images ! 



• CHAPTER VI. 

the record — continued. 

There was a man drawn from the water 
called Moses and God commanded him to 
copy the law for the flesh man. He could 
no longer understand spiritual law so he 
must have a law adapted to his fallen state, 
but this law must be written in natural 
language so constructed as to hold a spirit- 
ual meaning, just as the natural man 
contained the spiritual man ; and it must 
be written as it appeared to man to be 
true, otherwise he would not accept it, but 
it must be written so as to be adapted to 
his regeneration. 

And as man was building his own natu- 
ral history from his own spiritual condition 
so Moses recorded the history of the Most 

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Ancient Church, using his natural sur- 
roundings to describe his spiritual state. 

He found them in the Egyptian state 
spiritually and enslaved to Pharaoh natu- 
rally. He led them through God's guid- 
ance, through the successive spiritual states 
giving an accurate history of them, so 
that when man reads the internal or spir- 
itual meaning he can thoroughly under- 
stand himself and all his hereditary evils. 
He will no longer believe God the author 
of the ills of life, but only of the good ; 
and when once he fully perceives how 
man fell he will know how to rise. 
Through Adam he fell from the spirit to 
the flesh ; through Christ he may again 
return to his Father's house from the flesh 
to the spirit. 

And still they fell. Adam began the 
fall and the human race continued to fall ; 
everything was dwarfed or inverted to his 



32 TRUE MEMORY. 

sensual vision. He pronounced good and 
evil upon all things, and being able to 
judge only from external appearances he 
was always appropriating evil instead of 
good because it was to his gross nature at 
the time most pleasant ; and thus he 
brought upon himself disease and sorrow 
and suffering. Because he knew he could 
now think wicked things and no longer be 
detected by men he loved to think evil 
thoughts and plan evil deeds, but these 
evils came to the flesh man as disease and 
sickness, and ever and always he laid the 
blame upon God. He had forgotten that 
his father had put it off upon the woman, 
his wife, and she in turn had blamed the 
serpent, and indeed they did not then 
know that the serpent was their own sen- 
sual principle ; to them it had become a 
materialized, creeping thing, a relic of the 
first lie that was ever spoken upon the 



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earth, trailing in the dust, where it drags 
all men who follow their sensual appetite. 

In like manner had they materialized all 
their animal passions, so that the world 
was infested with wild, untamable beasts, 
and the sea with mighty monsters repre- 
senting the character of their own abomi- 
nable doctrines. Their hate had withdrawn 
heat from a part of the globe and they 
claimed that God had made a Frigid Zone. 
Their infernal lusts had caused a belt of 
burning heat and they said that God had 
made the Tropics, the home of the deadly 
cobra. But for the few who retained a 
remnant of truth there would be no Tem- 
perate Zone, no domestic animals. 

There was nothing more sad to the de- 
scendants of the flesh men than that they 
could no longer choose spiritual partners 
for wives. They were deceived by out- 
ward appearances. Beauty of the external 



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might contain a false, corrupt nature, from 
which the children would inherit their 
natural mind ; and a man also might be 
apparently good and true and his spiritual 
nature, the fountain from which his de- 
scendants should flow, be false and corrupt; 
and thus the children of such parents 
were unfortunate heirs to all their parents' 
sins, as the law had pronounced, unto the 
third and fourth generation of those that 
hated Him. 

When the flesh man numbered his days 
they mourned for him as dead. They had 
forgotten that spirit could not die. They 
lost all True Memory, as their mournings 
over their dead would signify. 



CHAPTER VII. 

The sensual teacher uses spoken and 
written words to convey his ideas to the 
sensual man. The material universe and 
its inhabitants are the objective lessons 
pictured forth, and are taught by those on 
a higher plane, to be God's ideas pictured 
forth. Our souls, our spirits, must pierce 
the veil to find their hidden meaning. 
You have a beautiful conception. I can- 
not share it unless you speak or write it, 
and through the sense of sound or sight I 
perceive your meaning ; but unless your 
vords touched something kindred in me I 
could not understand or believe them. 

We express our thoughts by speech, 
pen or brush, or carve them out of stone. 
God makes His manifest in the mystery of 



36 TRUE MEMORY. 

life. We must not look at the form of 
man only, to understand him as God's 
highest creation, but the eyes of our 
spirits must pierce the covering of flesh, 
this material veil of illusion, and see the 
spiritual man as God first created him 
when he lived in spiritual tents, ate spirit- 
ual food, and had True Memory. 



CHAPTER VIII. 

THE SCROLL. 

And I saw one of these flesh men after 
he was dead. His wise brethren gathered 
around to discover the cause. They 
opened his body with sharp swords, and 
behold, his heart was there, but like a 
worn-out engine it was still ; the great 
source of the circulation of the blood was 
broken, never to be repaired ; therefore 
the lungs and liver and all the various 
organs were inanimate and falling to de- 
cay like wood, when the sap ceases to feed 
its veins. 

They looked more wise and said they 
would open the head; that the great 
centre, the throne of reason, was there, 
from which every mandate had been 

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38 TRUE MEMORY. 



given; where sat enthroned the sovereign 
king that had ruled every nerve and 
fibre and muscle, and commanded every 
motion this body in life had ever made, 
and had its marvellous mechanism to work 
out his life problem with; a faithful serv- 
ant to a tyrant king. No crowned mon- 
arch had ever had more loyal subject. 
Alas, no crowned monarch had ever ruled 
more unwisely. 

It was done ! The skull was opened, 
and behold the brain, a common material 
thing, not unlike the brain of an ox. And 
seek as they might, they found no recess 
there containing a record of this man's 
thoughts, nor any trace that he had ever 
had a thought. They found nothing to 
tell them why this man was a man save 
his shape, his form. The living, breath- 
ing, thinking, working man, whose ser- 
vant this dead frame was, had vanished, 







And I saw one of these flesh men after he was dead. * * 
And seek as they might they found no recess there containing a 
record of this man's thoughts, nor any trace that he had ever 
had a thought. 



TRUE MEMORY. 39 

leaving not a trace behind, no clue by 
which it might be sought and found. 

A chemist looked wise and said to the 
surgeon, " I assure you, sir, that I can 
take this body and bring back to you in 
vials every particle of this man." 

" But, sir," whispered the Priest, " go 
find for me his soul." 

" That," answered the scientist, " went 
out with his breath" 

" Then," whispered the Priest, "bring 
back to me his breath" 

" Perhaps," said the scientist, " that re- 
turned to your God." 

"Where" said the Priest, " shall we wise 
ones find God? " 

" Leave that to the babes and suck- 
lings," said he. 

And I cried in my heart, — Can a?iy- 
thing die that God has made? 

And a voice within me answered, — 
Nay! Nay! 



40 TRUE MEMORY. 

And I cried, — God did not make the 
flesh man that dies ? 

And the voice within me answered, — 
Nay! 

Thou hast been shown what God hath 
created man to be, and what man changed 
himself to be. 

And I cried, — 'Tis only the natural 
flesh man that has died ; the spiritual 
man lives on. 

And the voice said, — Aye. 

And I said again in the words of the 
prophet Isaiah : " Woe unto them that 
call evil good and good evil, that put 
darkness for light and light for darkness, 
that put bitter for sweet and sweet for 
bitter." 

And then I remembered the shade of 
the Light of Heaven that had fallen on 
that spiritual world that had rolled be- 
fore me in that first vision, so incompre- 



TRUE MEMORY. 41 

hensibly mild and pure, a light that 
equally enlightened the understanding 
and the sio:ht. And I marvelled more 
and more at the fall of Adam, and I 
marvelled still more at the great love 
and goodness and patience of God and 
His mercy towards man. And I praised 
the great God, and I was learning to pity 
man. I could not love him yet. 



CHAPTER IX. 

the sc roll — continued. 

And then a great light was thrown 
upon the Scroll and illuminated a wonder- 
ful vision and at the same time illumi- 
nated my understanding. 

And lo! the sun stood still upon Gid- 
eon and the moon stayed in the valley of 
Ajalon until men had avenged themselves 
upon their enemies, as was written in the 
book of Jasher, which the spiritual men 
retained with them when they became 
invisible to the Adam man. 

And I heard the voice within me 
crying : — 

Behold a total vastation of the True 
Memory of man. God, the spiritual sun 
is no longer recognized by man. The 

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TRUE MEMORY. 43 

luminous presence that had shone upon 
spiritual men and upon the spiritual earth, 
pure Love proceeding from Jehovah God 
who is in the midst of it, they had ceased 
to adore ; and in its stead they looked up 
to the great natural sun that God had 
given to warm and light their material 
earth, a fit emblem of their self-love and 
self-derived intelligence ; both the very 
antipodes of Divine Love and Divine 
Wisdom, for it is dead. It never gave 
birth to anything of life, while from the 
spiritual sun all life is produced. 

And the spirit said, — "Full well ye 
reject the commandments of God that ye 
may keep your own tradition. 

" The God of heaven shall set up a 
kingdom which shall never be destroyed 
and the kingdom shall not be left to other 
people, but shall break in pieces all other 
kingdoms and it shall stand forever." 



X. 

the scroll — continued. 

And I heard the voice say, behold ! and 
I looked again, and I saw a young man 
fair to look upon, and his raiment was 
purple and gold and fine linen, and there 
was a crown upon his head. And he did 
sleep, and in his dream the Lord appeared 
to him and said, 

" Ask what I shall give thee." 

And the young king said, 

" Thou hast showed unto thy servant 
David, my father, great mercy, according 
as he walked before thee in truth and in 
righteousness and in uprightness of heart 
with thee, and thou hast kept for him this 
crreat kindness, that thou hast riven him a 
son to sit on his throne, as this day. 

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TRUE MEMORY. 



45 



" And now, O Lord, my God, thou hast 
made thy servant king instead of David 
my father, and I, a little child, I know not 
to go out or come in. 

u And thy servant in the midst of thy 
people which thou hast chosen, a great 
people that cannot be numbered nor 
counted for multitude. 

" Give therefore thy servant an under- 
standing heart to judge thy people that I 
may discern between good and bad ; for 
who is able to judge this thy so great 
people ? " 

And the speech so pleased the Lord 
that Solomon had asked this thing. 

And God said unto him, " Because thou 
hast asked this thin^, and hast not asked 
for thyself long life, neither hast asked 
riches for thyself, nor hast asked the life 
of thine enemies, but hast asked for thy- 
self understanding to discern judgment: 



46 TRUE MEMORY. 

" Behold, I have done according to thy 
word ; lo, I have given thee a wise and 
understanding heart; so that there was 
none like thee before, neither after thee 
shall any arise like unto thee. 

u And I have also given thee that which 
thou hast not asked, both riches and 
honor ; so that there shall not be any 
among the kings like unto thee all thy 
days. 

" And if thou wilt walk in my ways, to 
keep my statutes and my commandments, 
as thy father David did walk, then I will 
lengthen thy days." 

And my soul cried, — Why have not all 
men thus asked of God wisdom to discern 
judgment? 

And the Voice answered, — Self-love; 
love of dominion ; love of the world. 



CHAPTER XT. 

the scroll — continued. 
And now the air was filled with a 
subtle incense, and I heard such words 
of praise and prayer and thanksgiving as 
I had never listened to before. Who was 
it? What was it? Oh never man spake 
like that, and lo, as I listened to those 
Psalms a great promise was given, a seal 
was broken from my inner vision, and a 
door of the Inner Temple of my soul was 
unbarred. These were the words of the 
Divine Man. 



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CHAPTER XII. 

the scroll — continued. 

And I looked again upon the Scroll 
and read in shining words : 

" The people that walked in darkness 
have seen a great light ; they that dwell 
in the land in the shadow of death (the 
flesh) upon them hath the light shined. 

" For unto us a child is born, unto us a 
son is given ; and the government shall 
be upon his shoulders, and his name shall 
be called Wonderful, Counselor, The 
Mighty God, The Everlasting Father, 
The Prince of Peace. 

" Of the increase of His government 
and peace there shall be no end upon the 
throne of David, and upon his kingdom to 
order it and to establish it with judgment 
and justice from henceforth even for ever. 

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TRUE MEMORY. 49 

" The zeal of the Lord of Hosts will 
perform this. 

" The Lord sent a word into Jacob and 
it hath lighted up Israel. And all the 
people shall know, even Ephraim (the in- 
tellectual principle of good and truth per- 
taining to the spiritual church) and the 
inhabitants of Samaria (where the truth 
has been perverted), that say in the pride 
and stoutness of their heart, 

" The bricks (imitations of truth) are 
fallen down, but we build with hewn 
stones (self-derived intelligence). 

" The sycamores (external truth) are 
cut down, but we will change them into 
cedars (appearance of spiritual truth). 

" The ancient and honorable (those 
held by men in high esteem) he is the 
head, the prophet which teacheth lies he 
is the tail. 

" For the leaders of this people cause 



50 TRUE MEMORY. 

them to err; and they that are led of 
them are destroyed." 

And yet came the promise like a great 
seal to a covenant, that a remnant shall 
return, the remnant of Jacob, unto the 
mighty God. 

And the Voice said look up, and read 
again the prophecy. 

And I read, — 

" And there shall come forth a rod out 
of the stem of Jesse and a branch shall 
grow out of his roots." 

"And the spirit of the Lord shall rest 
upon him, the spirit of wisdom and under- 
standing, the spirit of counsel and might, 
v the spirit of knowledge and the fear of 
the Lord. 

" And shall make him of quick under- 
standing in the fear of the Lord. And he 
shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, 
neither reprove after the hearing of his 
ears : 



TRUE MEMORY. 51 

" But with righteousness shall he judge 
the poor, and reprove with equity for the 
meek of the earth : 

" And He shall smite the earth with 
rod of His mouth, and with the breath 
of His lips shall He slay the wicked. 
And righteousness shall be the girdle 
of His loins and faithfulness the girdle of 
His reins. 

" The wolf shall dwell with the lamb, 
and the leopard shall lie down with the 
kid; and the calf and the young lion and 
the fatling together ; and a little child 
shall lead them. 

" And the cow and the bear shall feed ; 
their young ones shall lie down together; 
and the lion shall eat straw like an ox. 

"And the sucking child shall play on 
the hole of the asp, and the weaned child 
shall put his hand on the cockatrice's den. 

" And they shall not hurt nor destroy 



52 TRUE MEMORY. 

in all my holy mountain, for the earth 
shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord 
as the waters cover the sea. 

" And in that day there shall be a root 
of Jesse which shall stand for an ensign of 
the people ; to it shall the Gentiles seek 
and his rest shall be glorious. 

" And it shall come to pass in that day, 
that the Lord shall set His hand a^ain 
the second time to recover the remnant 
of His people which shall be left, from 
Assyria and from Egypt, and from Path- 
ros, and from Cush and from Elam and 
from Shinar and from Hamath, and from 
the islands of the sea. 

" And He shall set up an ensign for 
the nations, and shall assemble the out- 
casts of Israel and gather together the 
dispersed of Judah from the four corners 
of the earth. 

" The envy also of Ephraim shall de- 



TRUE MEMORY. 53 

part and the adversaries of Judah shall be 
cut off; Ephraim shall not envy Judah 
and Judah shall not vex Ephraim. 

" But they shall fly upon the shoulders 
of the Philistines towards the west; they 
shall spoil them of the east together; they 
shall lay their hand upon Edom and 
Moab ; and the children of Ammon shall 
obey them. 

" And the Lord shall utterly destroy 
the tongue of the Egyptian Sea ; and 
with His mighty wind shall He shake His 
hand over the river and shall smite it in 
the seven streams, and make men go over 
dry shod. 

" And there shall be a highway for the 
remnant of His people, which shall be 
left from Assyria like as it was to Israel 
in the day that he came up out of the 
land of Egypt." 



CHAPTER XIII. 

the scroll — continued. 

And behold, thick darkness was gath- 
ered upon the whole earth, and I covered 
my eyes and trembled, for I was afraid. 

But the voice said, Look up. 

I looked up, and lo ! a Star ! And I 
saw men wrapped in long garments walk- 
ing silently toward that star. And the 
whole air was melodious with such song 
as had not been heard since the days 
of Adam. I breathed in the precious 
melody and remembered the words as 
they sang, 
" Glory to God in the highest, 

And on earth peace, and goodwill toward men." 

And I bowed low and followed them. 
And lo ! a manger and a young child: 

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. 




But the voice said, " Look up." I looked up, and lo 



TRUE MEMORY. 55 

and they kneeled to the child, and the air 
was filled with fragrance from the boxes 
they opened and offered to the Babe. 

And they departed. And the voice 
said, Behold the Babe is He who praised 
the Lord in the Psalms and cried out 
with the voice of David. It is He of 
whom the prophet said, 

" His name shall be called Wonderful, 
Counselor, The Mighty God, The Ever- 
lasting Father, and the Prince of Peace." 

And I waited and asked them, What is 
this child's name ? 

And they whispered, JESUS. 

And I said to my soul as I returned to 
the Inner Chamber, I will never leave 
Him. I will watch this Jesus grow to 
manhood. 

And behold Herod would slay Him and 
He was taken down into Egypt. And the 
voice in the Inner Chamber cried, the 



56 TRUE MEMORY. 

Israelites were in bondage there, what if 
the Egyptians make a prisoner of the 
Babe ? And in fear and trembling 1 
followed on. 

He returned to Israel by way of Galilee 
and dwelt in Nazareth. And I saw Him 
again, walking humbly among the people, 
healing the sick, opening the eyes of the 
blind, cleansing the lepers, casting out 
devils, raising the dead, causing the dumb 
to speak, the lame to walk, and the deaf 
to hear. 

No man ever spake like this man in the 
outer world, while in the Inner Chamber 
of His soul rose up all the fierce and hid- 
eous wars that I had witnessed in vivid 
illustrations on the scroll, and read so 
much concerning in the Record. Within 
His body He carried the history of the 
world, and in His flesh the sins of all the 
people. 

And as I followed on I saw Him go 



TRUE MEMORY. 57 

into the wilderness led by the Spirit, and 
was there tempted of the devil. And I 
listened and learned of Him. 

And when He had fasted forty days and 
nights He was afterwards a hungered. 

And when the tempter came to Him, 
he said, " If thou be the Son of God, com- 
mand that these stones be made bread. 

" But He answered and said, It is writ- 
ten, Man shall not live by bread alone, 
but by every word that proceedeth out of 
the mouth of God. 

" Then the devil taketh Him up into 
the holy city and setteth Him on a pinna- 
cle of the temple, 

" And saith unto Him, If thou be the 
Son of God, cast thyself down ; for it is 
written He shall orive His angels charge 
concerning thee ; and their hands shall 
bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash 
thy foot against a stone. 

"And Jesus said unto Him, It is 



58 TRUE MEMORY. 

written again, Thou shalt not tempt the 
Lord thy God. 

"Again the devil taketh Him up into 
an exceeding hi^h mountain and showeth 
Him all the kingdoms of the world, and 
the glory of them, 

" And saith unto Him, All these things 
will I give thee if thou wilt fall down and 
worship me. 

" Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee 
hence, Satan : for it is written, Thou shalt 
worship the Lord thy God, and Him only 
shalt thou serve." 

" Then the devil leaveth him, and, 
behold, angels came and ministered unto 
Him." 

And lo ! I looked a^ain and I saw 
the tempter was the very serpent that 
had spoken to Adam and Eve, illustrated 
upon the Scroll, and had said to them 
these selfsame things. To whom Adam 



TRUE MEMORY. 59 

hearkened and obeyed and under whose 
teaching and dominion Adam had lost 
Paradise. The very serpent which said, 
" Ye shall not surely die!" 

Behold the flesh men had named him 
Satan. They had materialized this wicked, 
false spirit of evil, until to them he had 
become a devil. But Jesus knew him, for 
He judged not from appearances; He 
knew he was the father of lies, a murderer 
from the beginning, and He put him 
behind Him. 

And my soul cried, Why? 

And the voice answered, He was tempt- 
ing Jesus to use His power for selfish 
motives even as he had tempted Adam. 

To appease hunger by commanding the 
stone to turn to bread, rather than suffer 
the pangs that hunger brings to the flesh, 
and He remembered that bread could not 
feed the soul. 



60 TRUE MEMORY. 

Again to tempt God's providence by 
taking the daring risks of flesh men and 
put the test of whether God be true in 
giving His angels charge of him. The 
very thought would have expressed a 
doubt. And then the supreme temptation 
to the Adam man, power, fame and riches, 
if he would worship and obey the sensual, 
serpent principle. 

And behold how very opposite the 
Divine man hath met and overcome the 
temptations, showing the flesh men He 
came to redeem, in the very start of life, 
what they must meet, how they must 
overcome. 

Adam in the Garden of Eden, with all 
its gifts, fell when tempted. Christ in the 
wilderness, hungry and alone from men, 
overcame. 

Behold the picture ! 



CHAPTER XIV. 

THE SCROLL — con tin ned. 

And I heard a voice say, Read and 
behold. 

Upon the Scroll I saw the words : 

" Comfort ye my people, saith your God. 

u And the glory of the Lord shall be 
revealed, and ?\\ flesh shall see it together ; 
for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken 
it. 

" The voice said, Cry. And I said, 
What shall I cry ? All flesh is grass, and 
all the goodliness thereof is as the flower 
of the field. 

" The grass withereth, the flower fadeth ; 
because the spirit of the Lord bloweth 
upon it; surely the people is grass. 

" The grass withereth, the flower fadeth ; 

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62 TRUE MEMORY. 

but the word of our God shall stand 
forever. 

"He shall feed his flock like a shepherd, 
He shall gather the lambs with His arm, 
and carry them in His bosom, and shall 
gently lead them that are with young." 

Who hath directed the Spirit of the 
Lord, or being His counsellor hath taught 
Him? 

And my soul answered, God. 




"And ye now therefore have sorrow, but T will see you again, 
and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from 

you." 



CHAPTER XV. 

And I bowed my head and followed 
Him. 

And he would refer the scribes and 
Pharisees to their Bible, and I would take 
my own and read. But I always came 
back to the Inner Chamber and knelt 
down and waited; waited in the darkness, 
waited in the gloom, until one blessed day 
I heard a voice saying, 

" Behold, I stand at the door and knock ; 
if any man will open unto me I will come 
in to him and sup with him." 

And I opened the door of the Inner 
Chamber and behold Jesus stood there. 

And my soul cried out, 

My Lord and my God! 

And I crouched low upon the floor 

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TRUE MEMORY. 65 

and behold the kingdom of heaven is 
within you." 

I looked again. Behold it is true, for 
Jesus, the way, the truth, and the life, 
stood within the Inner Chamber. 

And I fell upon my face and cried, Who 
can follow thee, Lord, in the regeneration; 
for behold the twelve tribes of Israel rise 
up against thee and strive in the Inner 
Chamber of thy soul? 

And He answered, 

" To him that overcometh I will o-ive to 
eat of the Tree of Life which is in the 
midst of the Paradise of God. To him 
that overcometh I will give to eat of the 
hidden manna, and I will give him a white 
stone, and in the stone a new name 
written, which no man knoweth saving- 
he that receiveth it." 

And He told me the story of the Prod- 
igal Son, and I said I will arise and go to 
my Father. 



66 TRUE MEMORY. 

And I saw upon the Scroll that it 
opened upon the illustration of Moses 
lifting up the brazen serpent, and as my 
eyes rested upon it Jesus said, 

" And I, if I be lifted up from the 
earth (the flesh) will draw all men unto 
me. 

Being lifted up from the earth I die to 
the carnal nature. 

And I bowed my head and thanked 
Him. 

But oft I was cumbered with many 
cares, and I forgot to sit at Jesus' feet. 
And I toiled for food and raiment when I 
went out and closed the door of the 
Inner Chamber, and my heart was sore 
when I returned. And the voice said 
softly, 

" No man can serve two masters. Ye 
cannot serve God and mammon. There- 
fore I say unto you take no thought for 



TRUE MEMORY. 67 

your life, what ye shall eat or what ye 
shall drink; nor yet for your body what 
ye shall put on. Is not the life more than 
meat and the body more than raiment? 

" Behold the fowls of the air, for they 
sow not neither do they reap nor gather 
into barns ; yet your heavenly Father feecl- 
eth them. Are ye not much better than 
they? 

" Why take ye thought for raiment ? 
Consider the lilies of the field how they 
grow; they toil not neither do they spin; 

" And yet I say unto you that Solomon 
in all his glory was not arrayed like one 
of these. 

" Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass 
of the field that to-day is, and to-morrow 
is cast into the oven, shall he not much 
more clothe you, O ye of little faith? 
• " For after all these things do the 
Gentiles seek; for your heavenly Father 



68 TRUE MEMORY. 

knoweth that ye have need of all these 
things. 

" But seek ye first the kingdom of God 
and His righteousness and all these things 
shall be added unto you. 

" Take, therefore, no thought for the 
morrow, for the morrow shall take thought 
for the things of itself. Sufficient unto 
the day is the evil thereof/' 

And I lifted up my voice and cried with 
joy. The burden was not necessary. I 
was carrying a load that God wanted to 
bear, and I laid it down outside the 
Temple, and to me it looked like a moun- 
tain of black darkness. And silently, 
without this load, I retired to the Inner 
Chamber. And in the wakening dawn 
of the new day that crept into the window 
I tried to see the furniture of the room. 
The rays fell upon the floor and were 
creeping up to light the room ; and all the 



TRUE MEMORY. GO 

time I was trying to follow a faint streak 
of light that led — whither? And a voice 
whispered, Come and see. 

And as I watched this streak of light it 
reminded me of how in the early morning 
of my life I watched a light, gray and ob- 
scure at first as it crept into the chamber 
of my soul, just as in after years I watched 
the morning dawn creep in and light each 
piece of furniture in the room, beginning 
at the floor. 

And now I wondered whence this light 
had come and wondered whither it would 

And a voice said, Behold the light that 
dawneth in thee is True Memory! 
I looked again and read the Record: 
True Memory is the most there is of a 
man. True Memory only can lead him 
back to his Fathers house. Behold, it is 
the light which Adam quenched when he 



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TRUE MEMORY. 



covered himself with the evil of the flesh. 
Light (Truth) is the True Memory of 
Man. The wisest man is he who forgets 
the least of good. 

And my soul said, Then Jesus know- 
eth whence the Light cometh, and He 
calleth it His Father. And by this 
Light and in this Light he walketh the 
earth veiled in the flesh derived from his 
mother Mary. But the spirit of his 
Father was the Light of the world (flesh), 
and by this Light he read the secret 
workings of men's hearts and brains. 
The hypocrite could not cover his sin 
with smiles nor hide from Him the 
inside of the platter. 

And again I read from the Record: 
The Lord appears to every man accord- 
ing to the state of the man. " To the fro- 
ward He shows Himself fro ward, to the 
upright He appeareth upright." To the 



TRUE MEMORY. 71 

wicked He is an angry God; to the man 
of blood an avenging God. 

And my soul cried out, O Lord! give 
me the light; tell me what True Memory is. 

And a voice said, Read on. 

I read: 

To remember only the good in every 
one; for as you remember them so they 
become to you. Had man known only 
good, appropriated only good, believed 
only in good, remembering that all was 
from God who could only be the author of 
good, then he had not fallen into the 
gross error and believed in evil and at- 
tributed it to God. To him in his fallen 
state God became all that his fallen state 
had brought to himself; and what his 
memory made him he handed down to 
his children; for we know that, as we 
remember one, so he becomes to us as 
good or evil. 



72 TRUE MEMORY. 

Flesh man, created like a house, has his 
furniture inherited in brain, blood, bone, 
nerve, muscle, etc., and whether he be 
good or evil he is what his memory makes 
him, or what it shows to him of good or 
evil. 

The interior memory is void in some 
and they are called natural men, and they 
become inhabitants of the world of spirits. 
Others receive True Memory to a small 
degree and are called good men, and they 
inhabit the spiritual world. Others receive 
still more of this light of True Memory, 
and they become angels. And when man 
receives all of True Memory comes his 
Redemption, for then he knows and con- 
fesses that the only Truth and Light is 
God. When man rejects zvJiolly all that 
lie remembers which is not from God, but 
inherited (proprium), then is he indeed 
redeemed. 



TRUE MEMORY. 73 



The external or natural mind clings to 
its first impressions of outward things and 
believes it to be knowledge when in reality 
it is illusion, delusion, appearance only. 
The internal mind, when True Memory 
lights it, opens up an interior, invisible, 
unseen world, full of marvellous visions, 
and once it gains admittance to the Inner 
Chamber the Light is sure to remain and 
will grow brighter if we have oil to feed 
the flame. (Oil, the holy principle of good, 
the good of love.) For by the Light of 
True Memory only can we return to our 
Father's house. 

Only One remembers the day of crea- 
tion and when He swung; the stars like 
lamps in the sky. On]}' One remembers 
to send the sunlight and the air. Only 
One remembers the fall of a sparrow. 
Only One recognizes the internal man 
and pays no homage to his earthly pos- 



74 TRUE MEMORY. 

sessions. Only One remembers how He 
fashioned the intricate machinery, the 
spiritual body that dwells in and com- 
mands the mortal that is called man. 
And memory, True Memory, all that can 
lead man back to God, hangs like a golden 
chain from His throne to His footstool. 

And I cried in my soul, Where is True 
Memory to be found? And I fell upon 
my face, and lo ! I heard the voice of 
Jesus say, 

" I am the Light of the world. No man 
cometh unto the Father but by me." 

And I vowed a vow. He remembered 
his Father and He would tell us all about 
Him, and as His Divine Father would 
teach Him He would teach the world, 
and thus would I gain memory of the 
Father through the Son. 

Thus having rejected the tempter which 
had led Adam astray, having rejected all 



TRUE MEMORY. 75 

temptation to use power for Himself, when 
angels had ministered unto Him, then He 
departed into Galilee and, leaving Naza- 
reth, He came and dwelt in Capernaum 
which is upon the sea coast in the borders 
of Zebulon and Nephthalim, that it might 
be fulfilled which was spoken by the 
prophet Esaias saying, 

" The land of Zebulon and the land of 
Nephthalim by way of the sea beyond 
Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles; 
. " The people which sat in darkness saw 
a great light and to them which sat in the 
region of the shadow of death lisrht is 
sprung up. 

From that time Jesus began to preach 
and to say, 

" Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is 
at hand." 

And I followed Him, to learn of Him, 
for never man spake like this Man spake. 



76 TRUE MEMORY. 

And I listened to His sermon on the 
mount which was the very opposite of all 
the sermons I had ever heard. I learned 
His prayer; but when I would repeat it in 
the Inner Chamber I started up in fright. 
. " Forgive our debts as we forgive our 
debtors." 

And in fear I cried, and fell upon my 
face. " As we forgive." Oh, who forgives 
his fellow man as he would have God 
to forgive him ? 

And I said, Who is worthy to say that 
prayer? Who can say it and not be 
afraid ? 

The spirit said: Ye have seen how 
that these flesh men have attributed all 
their evils to God. But behold the Son 
of man hath attributed them to Satan 
(their own false beliefs and doctrines, their 
own hypocrisies have bound them), and 
He, Jesus, loosed them and made them 



TRUE MEMORY. i i 

free; not free from God, but from the 
devil (evil thought), and cast them out. 

We must reject all inherited memories 
even as Jesus rejected all inherited mem- 
ories of evil and sin in the Jewish race. 
His memory of the Father contended 
always with this inherited memory. 

Adam fell from the spiritual man into 
the flesh or sensual state. 

He who receives Christ is born of God; 
i.e., has enough of True Memory to be led 
to understand how to reject the false 
inherited sensual principles of father, 
mother, sister, brother, and to take up 
the cross and follow the divine life of 
Jesus, knowing always that this earth life 
is limited to a span and that all of the 
sensual Ave inherit may be quickly lost and 
that we have no need of them in the 
spirit. True Memory opens the grave of 
the senses and leads us back to our 



78 TRUE MEMORY. 

Father's house. It pierces the veil of 
illusion ?„nd we see eye to eye. 

And I followed on with bowed head, 
when the voice said, Behold! I looked up 
and saw a vision. The voice said, Look 
up and read ! I read, and I returned to 
the Inner Chamber. I took my Bible 
and verified all I had seen and read. 

" Ask and it shall be given you, seek 
and ye shall find, knock and it shall be 
opened unto you. 

" For every one that asketh receiveth ; 
and he that seeketh findeth; and to him 
that knocketh it shall be opened." 

I felt that here, in this Holy Book, was 
the place to seek, the place to knock; 
and the promise was already given that I 
should find, that it should be opened 
unto me. 

But I loved to follow Jesus, for He 
walked not in the ordinary ways of men. 



TRUE MEMORY. 79 

He cared not for riches, nor houses, Hol- 
lands. He spoke always of his Father's 
kingdom, a kingdom not of this world. 
He told them (the Jews) that their Temple 
should not stand. Nay, not one stone 
upon another ; that nothing built with 
mortal hands is imperishable. 

I wrapped my mantle about me and 
went forth to find Him. My footsteps 
were guided upon a high mountain where 
Jesus and Peter and James and John 
stood apart, and He was transfigured 
before them. And His face did shine as 
the sun, and His raiment was as white 
licrht. 

And behold, there appeared unto them 
Moses and Elias talking with Him. 

And the voice whispered, Remember 
the Scroll; the spiritual men that God did 
create. Christ would show his disciples 
what the true man is, for behold their 



80 TRUE MEMORY. 

spiritual sight is now opened as is your 
own and they see Moses and Elias, and 
the figure thrown across Christ is His own 
spiritual body that shall at last be glori- 
fied. But these disciples do not know 
what is done to them, nor why it is done 
to them. Wrap thy mantle closely, more 
closely to thee, and let its folds fall even 
to the ground. And I obeyed and listened 
with bowed head. 

And Peter said unto Jesus, " Lord, it is 
good for us to be here : if thou wilt, let 
us make here three tabernacles; one for 
thee, one for Moses and one for Elias." 

And while he spake, behold a bright 
cloud overshadowed them, and behold a 
voice out of the cloud which said, " This 
is My beloved Son, in whom I am well 
pleased; hear ye Him." 

And when the disciples heard it' they 
fell on their faces and were sore afraid. 




"Jesus taketh Peter, James and John and bringeth them to a 
high mountain apart, and He was transfigured before them. 
His face did shine as the sun, and His raiment was white as 
light." 



TRUE MEMORY. 81 

"And Jesus came and touched them 
and said, Arise and be not afraid. 

" And when they lifted up their eyes, 
they saw no man save Jesus only." (For 
their spiritual eyes were now closed.) 

" And as they came down from the 
mountain (out of this exalted spiritual 
state) Jesus charged them saying, Tell the 
vision to no man, until the Son of man 
be risen again from the dead. 

"And His disciples asked Him saying, 
Why then say the scribes that Elias must 
first come ? 

"And Jesus answered and said unto 
them, Elias truly shall first come, and 
restore all things. 

" But I say unto you, that Elias is come 
already, and they knew him not, but have 
done unto him whatsoever they listed. 
Likewise shall also the Son of man suffer 
of them. 



82 TRUE MEMORY. 

" Then the disciples understood that He 
spoke of John the Baptist. 

"And when they were come unto the 
multitude a certain man came kneeling 
down to Him saying, 

" Lord have mercy on my son, for he is 
a lunatic and sore vexed; for ofttimes he 
falleth into the fire (hate), and oft into the 
water (falsity) ; and I brought him to Thy 
disciples and they could not cure him. 

" Then Jesus answered, O faithless and 
perverse generation, how long shall I be 
with you, how long shall I suffer you ! 
Bring him hither to Me. And Jesus 
rebuked the devil, and he departed out 
of him. And the child was cured from 
that self-same hour. 

" Then came the disciples to Jesus 
apart and said, Why could we not cast 
him out? 

"And Jesus said, Because of your un- 



TRUE MEMORY. 83 

belief; for verily I say unto you if you 
have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you 
shall say unto this mountain, Remove 
hence to yonder place, and it shall re- 
move; and nothing shall be impossible 
unto you. 

" Howbeit this kind goeth not out but 
by prayer and fasting. 

" And while they abode in Galilee Jesus 
said unto them, The Son of man shall be 
betrayed into the hands of men ; 

"And they shah kill Him, and the third 
day He shall be raised again. And they 
were exceeding sorry." 

And I wrapped my mantle closer and 
bowed my head and went into the Inner 
Chamber and kneeled down, and medi- 
tated upon all I had seen and heard. 

I viewed a^ain the Scroll. I read ao;ain 
the Record. I recalled the words of Jesus 
and I recalled the vision of the Trans- 



84 TRUE MEMORY. 

figuration, when the spiritual body of 
Jesus was drawn forth and thrown a 
luminous presence across His natural 
body. And the vision of Moses and 
Elias, spiritual men, appeared. And the 
voice whispered, 

"So hath God made man in the be- 
ginning. Moses and Elias still live in the 
spiritual world as do all good men who 
have passed out of sight of natural men; 
but the world is so gross that they cannot 
see spiritual things. Even the disciples. 
And He knew they must see Him die and 
be raised again before they could believe 
in the spiritual resurrection, even though 
they had witnessed the Transfiguration: 
seen the spirit drawn forth entirely from 
the body. Arid when He saw the depths 
to which they had fallen He was grieved 
for them." 

And there in the Inner Chamber I 



TRUE MEMORY. 85 

waited and prayed that I might find the 
golden stair of memory leading back to 
God ; Jacob's ladder, upon which angels 
ascended and descended, that they might 
lead me back to Him. 

And when the dawn came I followed 
on and I found Him about the sixth hour 
in Samaria, at the well. And I heard Him 
speak to the woman there as though He 
were speaking to all the world. And He 
said: 

"Ye worship ye know not what. 

" But the hour cometh and now is, when 
the true worshippers shall worship the 
Father in spirit and in truth ; for the 
Father seeketh such to worship Him. 

" God is a spirit ; and they that worship 
Him must worship Him in spirit and in 
truth:' 

And later when I listened I heard and 
kept His saying: 



86 TRUE MEMORY. 

" Verily, verily I say unto you, He that 
heareth My word, and believeth on Him 
that sent Me hath everlasting life, and 
shall not come into condemnation, but is 
passed from death unto life. 

" Verily, verily, I say unto you, The 
hour is coming and now is, when the dead 
(flesh men) shall hear the voice of the 
Son of God ; and they that hear shall live. 

"For as the Father hath life in Himself, 
so hath He given the Son to have life in 
Himself ; 

"And hath given Him authority to exe- 
cute judgment also, because He is the Son 
of man. 

"Marvel not at this; for the hour is 
coming in the which all that are in the 
graves (body of flesh) shall hear His voice, 

"And shall come forth; they that have 
done good (remembered good only) unto 
the resurrection of life ; and they that 



TRUE MEMORY. 87 

have done evil, unto the resurrection of 
damnation. 

" I can of Mine own self do nothing; as 
1 hear, I judge; and My judgment is just, 
because I seek not Mine own will, but the 
will of My Father which hath sent Me." 

And I bowed my head again, and took 
these words into my heart: 

" What and if ye shall see the Son of 
man ascend up where He was before? 

" It is the spirit that quickeneth ; the 
flesh profiteth nothing; the words that I 
speak unto you are spirit and they are life. 

" Ye judge after the flesh. I judge no 
man." (Flesh.) 

When I heard the words I bowed my 
face to the earth and wept. We judge 
that we cannot see and that we do not 
know; for the flesh hideth the real man. 
And as Christ judged no man, thus we 
should not. 



CHAPTER XVI. 

" And there came a beautiful woman 
who fell at Jesus' feet saying, 

" Lord, if thou hadst been here my 
brother had not died. 

" And Jesus cometh to the grave with 
them and said: 

" Take ye away the stone. And Mar- 
tha, the sister of him that was dead, saith 
unto Him, By this time he stinketh ; for he 
hath been dead four days. 

" Jesus said unto her, Said I not unto 
thee, that if thou wouldst believe thou 
shouldst see the glory of God ? 

" And they took away the stone from 
the place where the dead was laid. And 
Jesus lifted up his eyes and said, Father, 
I thank Thee that Thou hast heard Me. 

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TRUE MEMORY. 80 

"And I knew that Thou nearest. Me 
always; but because of the people which 
stand by I said it, that they may believe 
that Thou hast sent Me. 

"And when He had thus spoken He 
cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth. 

"And he that was dead came forth, 
bound hand and foot with graveclothes ; 
and his face was bound up with a napkin. 
Jesus saith unto them, Loose him and let 
him o-o. 

o 

" Then gathered the chief Priests and 
the Pharisees a council, and said, What 
do we? for this man doeth many miracles. 

" If we let Him alone all men will believe 
on Him; and the Romans shall come and 
take away both our place and nation." 

" Love of self, love of dominion, 1 ' cried 
the voice. " Behold, the Adam man pre- 
vails. It put' the flesh men in bondage 
and it will hold and keep them there." 



90 TRUE MEMORY. 

And I followed, followed on whitherso- 
ever He went, and learned of Him. And 
many of His sayings are written in my 
heart. 

Like these: 

" Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a 
corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, 
it abideth alone ; but if it die, it bringeth 
forth much fruit. 

" He that loveth his life shall lose it; 
and he that hateth his life in this world 
shall keep it unto life eternal. 

" If any man serve Me, let him follow 
Me ; and where I am there shall My ser- 
vant be; and if any man serve Me, him 
will My Father honor." 

And the voice whispered, " Listen to 
this ; for what He says is for you, and 
every one, to pass through, and He shows 
you how." 

" Now is My soul troubled and what 



TRUE MEMORY. 91 

shall I say? Father, save Me from this 
hour ; but for this cause came I unto this 
hour. 

" Father, glorify Thy name. Then came 
there a voice from heaven saying, I 
have both glorified it and will glorify it 
again. 

" And Jesus said unto them, Yet a little 
while is the light with you. Walk while 
ye have the light lest darkness come 
upon you; for he that walketh in dark- 
ness knoweth not whither he goeth. 

" While ye have light, believe in the 
light. These things spake Jesus, and 
departed and did hide Himself from 
them." 

" These things said Esaias when he saw 
His glory and spake of Him. 

"Nevertheless among the chief rulers 
also many believed on Him; but because 
of the Pharisees thev did not confess 



92 TRUE MEMORY. 

Him, lest they should be put out of the 
synagogue ; 

" For they loved the praise of men more 
than the praise of God." 

Is this not true to-day? 

" Jesus cried and said, He that believeth 
on Me, believeth not on Me but on Him 
that sent Me." 

u And I know that His commandment 
is life everlasting; whatsoever I speak, 
therefore, even as the Father said unto 
Me, so I speak." 

And I wrapped myself closely in my 
mantle and bowed my head and went 
silently into the Inner Chamber. And 
my soul was exceeding sorrowful, but I 
looked upon the Scroll once more and 
saw the whole creation of the universe roll 
forth from the great Spiritual Fountain of 
All Life, illuminated by Divine Light. 
And my soul cried out as those spiritual 



TRUE MEMORY. 93 

beings, illumined in that heavenly light, 
appeared : 

" Woe, woe, to them that call evil good, 
and good evil ; that put darkness for light 
and light for darkness ; that put bitter for 
sweet and sweet for bitter ! 

"Woe unto them that are wise in their 
own eyes, and prudent in their own sight." 
For thus had they wrought their own 
misery. 

And as I looked and listened the voice 
said, " For this cause came Christ into the 
world ; to restore all things, to teach men 
how to live, and the nothingness of this 
material world. As it was in the beo-in- 
ning it shall be in the end." 

And my soul cried, Amen, and Amen. 

" The Christ is come. Within His body 
He carries the history of the zuorld and in 
His flesh the sins of all the people? 

And then I marvelled no longer that He 



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TRUE MEMORY. 



must die. Die to the flesh, die to sin. 
That the flesh, that the world of black 
darkness to His immaculate . soul, must 
be cast off, spiritualized, to redeem man- 
kind. 



CHAPTER XVII. 

But He sorrowed for the world. He 
wept over Jerusalem, His beloved city. 
His soul revolted from hell— the tomb — 
but He had long ago cried, 

"Thou wilt not leave My soul in hell 
neither suffer Thine Holy One to see 
corruption." 

And He knew it would be so. 

The liorht struo-aled in the darkness, the 
Spirit in the flesh, but True Memory 
fanned the flame; He remembered His 
Father. 

He knew the material things of this 
universe were only adapted to the sensual 
earth, flesh man's brief existence, and 
would pass away from man as man passed 
away from it, or rejected its dominion, 

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96 TRUE MEMORY. 

and he would take nothing of it with 
him but his Memory, whether it be good 
or evil, as the Lamb's book of his Life. 

I walked again beside Him in those last 
solemn days. 

I saw Him wash the disciples' feet. I 
heard Him say, 

"He that eateth bread with Me hath 
lifted up his heel against Me." 

I heard Him give that new command- 
ment: 

" That ye love one another ; as I have 
loved you, that ye love one another. 

" By this shall all men know that ye are 
My disciples, if ye have love one to 
another." 

But He was going away, and said: 

"Whither I go thou canst not follow 
Me now; but thou shalt follow Me after- 
wards." 

Oh, those precious words! Oh, that 



TRUE MEMORY. 97 

heavenly counsellor ! Oh, that Divine 
comforter ! 

I knelt in the Inner Chamber. I folded 
my mantle closer, closer, and buried my 
face in my knees, and I listened, and again 
His precious words came echoing through 
the chambers of my soul. And I cried 
out, I know that my Redeemer liveth and 
in my flesh I shall see God. While yet 
in this flesh I had learned to know Him 
and thus see Him. And had not the 
humanity of Christ cried out with the 
voice of David these same words? And 
had He not made it possible, in example, 
for all who believed on Him to see and 
recognize God in Christ even though man 
was still enveloped in his flesh ? 

And I dwelt on His heavenly teachings 
and carried them in my heart. 



CHAPTER XVIII. 

Out of the land of Egypt, spiritual 
darkness, out of the house of bondage, He 
had led all who had followed Him. 

He "became sin" for us, buried in the 
grave of our sensual nature, in which He 
was vainly tempted, suffering the whole 
pressure of hereditary evil as if it was His 
personal, individual and only life, combat- 
ing its awful influences by urgent prayers 
to what seemed to Him at times a far-off, 
separate power, His Father in heaven, in- 
stead of the Divine within Himself. His 
sufferings arose from His temptations, 
the life-and-death struggles between the 
Divine spirit dwelling within Him and the 
hereditary evil nature which that spirit 
conquered and cast out; True Memory 

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TRUE MEMORY. 09 

of the Father combating the inherited 
memories of evil of the Jewish race de- 
rived from His mother Mary. 

And His precious words I gathered up 
and made a necklace of them as I knelt in 
the Inner Chamber, such as : 

"Let not your heart be troubled; ye 
believe in God, believe also in Me. 

" In My Father's house are many man- 
sions ; if it were not so I would have told 
you. I go to prepare a place for you. 

" And if I go and prepare a place for 
you I will come again, and receive you 
unto Myself ; that where I am ye may be 
also. 

" And whatsoever ye. shall ask in My 
name that will I do, that the Father may 
be glorified in the Son. 

" If ye love Me, keep My command- 
ments. 

" And I will pray the Father, and He 



100 TRUE MEMORY. 

will give you another Comforter, that he 
may abide with you forever ; 

"Even the Spirit of Truth; whom the 
world cannot receive, because it seeth 
Him not, neither knoweth Him ; but ye 
know Him, for He dwelleth with you, and 
shall be in you. 

" Yet a little while, and the world seeth 
Me no more, but ye see Me ; because I 
live ye shall live also. 

" At that day ye shall know that I am 
in My Father, and ye in Me, and I in you. 

"Peace I leave with you, My peace. I 
give unto you ; not as the world giveth, 
give I unto you. Let not your heart be 
troubled, neither let it be afraid. 

" If ye abide in Me, and My words 
abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, 
and it shall be done unto you. 

" Howbeit when the Spirit of Truth 
(True Memory) is come he will guide you 



TRUE MEMORY. 101 

into all truth ; for he shall not speak of 
himself; but whatsoever he shall hear 
that shall he speak and he will show you 
things to come." 

And my soul was exceeding sorrowful 
as I strung these sayings upon a necklace 
as I knelt in the Inner Chamber. And I 
cried with my face upon the earth. And 
the sayings, like a string of pearls, I 
clasped to my heart when I heard a voice. 
And I lifted up mine eyes, and behold, 
Jesus stood once more in the Inner Cham- 
ber. And He said : 

"And ye now therefore have sorrow, 
but I will see you again, and your heart 
shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh 
from you. 

" And in that day ye shall ask Me noth- 
ing. Verily, verily I say unto you, what- 
soever ye ask the Father in My name, He 
will give it you. 



102 TRUE MEMORY. 

" I came forth from the Father and am 
come into the world; again, I leave the 
world and go unto the Father. 

"These words spake Jesus, and lifted 
up His eyes to heaven and said, Father, 
the hour is come. Glorify Thy son that 
Thy son may glorify Thee. 

" As thou hast given Him power over all 
flesh, that He should give eternal life to as 
many as Thou hast given Him. 

"And this is life eternal, that they 
might know Thee the only true God, and 
Jesus Christ whom Thou hast sent" 

And as I listened I heard His prayer, 
and felt it like sweet incense ascending up 
to heaven. And I listened, and breathed 
in that prayer, and it clung to my mantle 
like a sweet odor and perfumed the Inner 
Chamber. 

He had told me now what eternal life 
is, and how to find it, and I bowed my 
head and thanked Him. 



TRUE MEMORY. 103 

Once more I wrapped my mantle about 
me and walked forth to seek Him. And I 
found Him in the judgment hall, standing 
in calm majesty before Pilate. And I 
heard Pilate say, 

" Thine own nation and the chief priests 
have delivered Thee unto me ; what hast 
Thou done ? 

" Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of 
this world ; if My kingdom were of this 
world then would My servants fight that 
I should not be delivered to the Jews; 
but now is My kingdom not from 
hence. . . " 

And again I saw them lead Him forth, 
and I followed on. He wore a crown of 
thorns and a purple robe ; and Pilate 
saith unto them, 

BEHOLD THE MAN! 

"And He, bearing His cross, went forth 
into a place called Golgotha. 



104 TRUE MEMORY. 

" And they crucified Him, and two 
others with Him, on either side, and Jesus 
in the midst. And Pilate wrote a title 
and put it on the cross. And the writing 
was, 

"JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE 
KING OF THE JEWS. 

"And Jesus said, 

"IT IS FINISHED. 

" And He bowed His head and gave up 
the ghost. 

" And after this Joseph of Arimathea, 
being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly 
for fear of the Jews, besought Pilate 
that he might take away the body of 
Jesus. And Pilate gave him leave. He 
came therefore and took the body of 
Jesus. 

" Now in the place where He was cruci- 
fied there was a garden, and in the garden 



J 

TRUE MEMORY. 105 

a new sepulchre, wherein was never man 
yet laid. 

" Then laid they Jesus there because of 
the Jews' praparation day; for the sepul- 
chre was nigh at hand." 



CHAPTER XIX. 

I wrapped my mantle about me, and > 
the folds they did sweep the ground, and 
I bowed my head and returned to the 
Inner Chamber and meditated upon the 
promises that Jesus had made. He said 
He would return again, and my soul 
waited, and watched, and listened for His 
voice. I knew that He would return in 
the Spirit now, so surely as He departed in 
the flesh. And I looked up at the Scroll 
and read it again from the creation of the 
world. I saw spiritual men, luminous 
creatures, voluntarily, through love of self, 
love of the world and love of dominion, 
take on the srross material flesh and 
assume dominion over the earth. 

I read the Record again and again, how 

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TRUE MEMORY. 107 

the spiritual man was enveloped in flesh 
and became sensual, so that thus only 
could the Divine approach Him, live with 
Him, talk to Him, and teach Him to re- 
deem the flesh and spiritualize it so as to 
return to His Father. Had He departed 
otherwise than as He did, His own 
disciples would have said He had gone 
into another country. 

The prophecies already fulfilled, the 
promises to be fulfilled, were my meat and 
drink as I dwelt three days in the Inner 
Chamber. 

I walked forth again. 

The sepulchre where they had laid Him 
was empty. The Lord had risen, as He 
had said, and He appeared to all whose 
spiritual eyes were opened, and conversed 
with those whose spiritual ears were 
opened. 

I listened to the wonderful stories. 



108 TRUE MEMORY. 

Jesus walked the earth again unseen, 
save by all those who truly loved Him, 
and believed in Him. 

I listened and my heart rejoiced, for my 
soul said I should see Him ; for I knew 
He was the Son of God, that He was God. 
And I knew that He who marked the 
sparrow's fall would see my faith in Him. 
And as He had said to me that my heart 
would rejoice, so it did. 

And I returned to the Inner Chamber, 
and I kneeled down and wrapped my 
mantle about me, and waited upon the 
Lord. And He came. And He touched 
mine eyes, and I looked up, and He said, 
Behold ! 

And lo ! a temple that seemed to fill the 
universe, built after the pattern of Solo- 
mon's temple, and my soul knew that it 
was a spiritual temple in which all the 
nations of the earth did worship God, the 



TRUE MEMORY. 109 

Great Jehovah God, in Spirit and in 
Truth. And this temple was composed 
of myriads of temples of living souls. 
And luminous and bright at the corner I 
saw Him who had appeared in the Trans- 
figuration on the mount, and I remem- 
bered, " The stone which the builders re- 
jected was made chief of the corner." 

And He showeth me that the temple of 
the soul, the spiritual temple, was the only 
acceptable place to worship God. 

Then He spake again, and said, Look 
and see ! 

And behold, on a barren desert plain, 
heaped with the sands of time, I saw the 
great Egyptian Pyramids. And He said, 

" Behold the mockery of men ! Where 
are they, those giants of the earth, who 
in their vaunted pride and self-derived in- 
telligence have wrought these things? 
Behold, their very names are forgotten 



110 TRUE MEMORY. 

and unknown ; their works have been 
mightier than themselves. Sic transit 
gloria mundi. And He said, Come ; I will 
show thee all." 

And the Lord led me over the whole 
earth and He showed me the works of 
men. And He said, Behold ! How can 
a nation stand whose works are mightier 
than they? 

And I pondered on His words. 

And the voice said, " The Alchemists 
of old wasted their earth life seeking to 
find the Philosopher's Stone, which they 
supposed was a material thing, by the 
power of which they hoped to produce 
material gold and silver, as a stone always 
signified Truth. True Memory had died 
in them, but there still gleamed a reflected 
light upon the windows of their soul, of 
True Memory, the Spiritual Philosopher s 
Stone, which produces spiritual gold as 



TRUE MEMORY. Ill 

j)ure as from the refiner s fire; and the 
pathway thereto is through the shining 
white light of spiritual truth. True 
Memory is the true Philosopher's Stone, 
it turns man's thoughts into Spiritual 
Truth, and leads him to Celestial Good. 
" All knowledge is God's knowledge. 
Human knowledge is foolishness with 
God, for it is imitation or perversion and 
deludes man, deceives him, and all his 
self-derived intelligence is an inversion of 
God's spiritual laws. Man never invented 
anything. The wisest chemist does not 
know when a thing ceases to be a condi- 
ment and becomes a poison. He is safe 
in none of his so-called inventions save in 
God's mercy, and grows wise only as he 
acknowledges that all true wisdom is from 
God. He may be mutilated or blown to 
atoms at any moment in his laboratory, 
which is an unknown country to him, 



112 TRUE MEMORY. 

whose shores only has he yet explored. 
When man becomes spiritual once more 
the spiritual world will be an open book 
to him. 

" God only can create, for He is the 
Fountain of all Life. God is greater than 
all His creations which are sustained by 
Him, as they proceed from Him. 

" What is man, mortal man, but a vain 
impostor, an imitator, who has never 
created a lily nor a rose. He has chained 
the lightning and uses it for what he sup- 
poses life or death. 

"He builds churches of marble and 
stone and dedicates them to the living- 
God, and knows not that ' He dwelleth 
not in temples made with hands.' That 
' Heaven is His throne and earth His 
footstool. What house will ye build Me, 
saith the Lord ? ' 

"Chained with self-made cares, bound to 



TRUE MEMORY. 113 

earth by love of self and love of the world, 
he struggles through his allotted term of 
years. Does he learn wisdom ? Does 
the father who buries the son learn wis- 
dom ? or the son who buries the father 
know more of God ? Naked he came 
into the world and empty-handed he must 
go forth. 

" Will man always believe that God 
called Him into an existence of toil and 
misery to send him forth again into the 
everlasting orloom of the grave ? Or will 
he grasp the golden chain of memory, 
True Memory, that leads him back to 
God, and know that God is a Spirit and 
can create spirit only ; that the gross, the 
sensual, the illusions, the delusions, are 
man's perversions of God's Divine gifts; 
and learn that to think only of that which 
is good, and do only that which is true, 
will lead him into the path where the 



114 TRUE MEMORY. 

Good Shepherd is ; that to open the door 
of the Inner Chamber to Him who stands 
and knocks, to remember His life and 
walk in His footsteps, not forgetting that 
He is w T ith us always unto the end of the 
world, 

" When the clouds are swept away, 
when we gain True Memory, then shall 
we know what He meant when He said, 

" ' I am the vine, ye are the branches.' 

" Then have we followed Him. in the re- 
generation as He promised, fitting the 
New Testament to the Old, a divine 
spiritual revelation, the Word of God, the 
regeneration of the Adam man. 

" In Adam we see how man fell and 
died. In Christ we see how he rose and 
lives again." 

And thus the Spirit spoke to my soul 
as the Lord led me on and showed me 
the works of men : 



TRUE MEMORY. 115 

Nations rise to their highest so-called 
civilization ■ — behold ancient Greece and 
Rome — they totter and fall and their 
glory becomes an echo of the past. 
Where are the sons of men who built the 
pyramid of Cheops, and those in imitation 
of it ? The Sphinx is a silent menace of 
worldly wisdom. 

Find for me a man, said the Spirit, that 
can pluck a rose from its stem and pre- 
vent its withering:. Show me the man 
that can sever a limb from the human 
body and continue the circulation of the 
blood therein. 

" Behold, what is man that thou art 
mindful of him and the son of man that 
thou visitest him." 

And I said, Lord, let me learn of Thee! 

And he said, Follow Me ! 

We were at once lifted above the earth 
and floated above it so that we could see 
all that dwelt thereon. 



116 TRUE MEMORY. 

And the Lord showed me the great 
cities of the earth with all their busy- 
marts. We paused at the harbors and 
saw ships come in and go out. We saw 
people of all nations and every tongue 
striving in this busy world for money, for 
power, position, possession, dominion. 

And I said to Him, Why is this, Lord ? 

And He said, Because God is not there. 

And I was afraid. I said, 

I thought God is everywhere. 

And the Lord said, Do you believe 
God was in the mind or heart of one you 
saw toiling and struggling there for money 
and for power ? 

And I said, If God were not there they 
could not live, they could not breathe ? 

And the Lord said, Aye, outside of them, 
but He was not in them. 

And we passed over the tall spires of 
the churches, and I said, Lord, is He 
here ? 




"Verily, I say unto you greater cities than these lie buried in 
the earth, swallowed up in the twinkling of an eye." 
And I said, " Because of God's wrath against man? " 
. The Lord said, " Nay, because of man's wrath against man."" 



TRUE MEMORY. 117 

And the Lord said, Aye, outside. 

And as we passed over the great cities 
with their towers, their armories, their 
schools and their factories, the Lord said, 
Verily I say unto you, greater cities than 
these lie in the bowels of the earth swal- 
lowed up in the twinkling of an eye. 

And I asked, Because of God's wrath 
against man ? 

And the Lord said, Nay ; because of 
man's wrath toward man. 

And we passed over palaces, and looked 
at crowned kings and beautiful queens, 
paused on the levees and in dark streets 
and saw harlots and murderers. 

And the Lord said, Do you believe 
God made this contrast? 

And I was silent. / dare not accuse 
God of this. 

And the Lord said, There is not a 
kingdom on the earth this day whose 



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TRUE MEMORY. 



throne is not tottering on the sand be- 
neath it, nor an Empire, nor a Republic ; 
because of love of self, love of the world, 
love of power, dominion, of bribes. As it 
is with the individual, so it is with the 
church ; as it is with the church, so it is 
with the nation. And He said, Behold ! 

And I beheld, and lo ! there were ani- 
mals of every kind and description under 
the sun, and serpents, and birds, and 
beasts of prey, and everything that is in 
the sea, all contending in one confused 
mass, while lurid fires gleamed about 
them and their fierce breath grew into a 
great whirlwind and I was afraid. 

And the Lord said, Behold again ! 

And I looked, and the horrible heap 
was clothed and was fair to look upon ; 
and lo ! it was a man ! 

And the Lord said, So long as man 
hath angry and vile sensual passions, so 




And the Loid said, " Behold ! " 

And I beheld, and lo ! there were animals of every kind and 
description under the sun, and serpents, and birds, and beasts of 
prey, and everything that is in the sea, all contending in one con- 
fused mass, while lurid flames gleamed about them and their 
fierce breath grew into a great whirlwind, and I was afraid. 



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And the Lord said, u Behold again ! " And I looked and the 
horrible heap was clothed and was fair to look upon ; and lo it 
was a man ! 



TRUE MEMORY. 119 

long shall disease and pestilence and 
vicious animals be upon the earth ; and 
wars and earthquakes and cyclones and 
tornadoes shall burst upon it. They are 
but the natural physical reflection of man's 
thoughts and passions. Everything in 
the natural world reflects material man 
as spiritual man was made to reflect God. 
Seek not God in the earthquake, the fire, 
the thunder nor the hVhtninsr. Behold, 
He speaketh in the still small voice at the 
door of the Inner Chamber. 

And I said, Lord, I am afraid of man. 

And He said, Rememberest thou the 
Scroll ? 

And I answered, Yea, Lord. 

And He said, God made all good, and 
men as images of Himself. The things 
which thou hast just seen within man 
were subject to his will, his thoughts, his 
affections, picturing forth objectively the 



TRUE MEMORY. 121 

And He said, Yea, in the flesh I did in- 
herit all these evils and I did subdue them 
so that " the wolf dwelt with the lamb, the 
leopard lay down with the kid, and the 
voun£ li on an d the fatlin^ together, and a 
little child did lead them. The cow and 
the bear fed, the young ones lay down 
together, and the lion ate straw like the 
ox. The sucking child played upon the 
hole of the asp, and the weaned child put 
his hand on the cockatrice's den." They 
did not hurt nor destroy in all My holy 
mountain (celestial principle) ; for the earth, 
My external bod}', was as full of the knowl- 
edge of the Lord as the waters cover the 
sea. And My memory was True Memory 
of My Father. 

And I remembered how the twelve 
tribes of Israel had warred within Him. 
I remembered the prophecies concern- 
ing Him; His death, His Resurrection; 



122 TRUE MEMORY. 

and now that He had taken me in the 
spirit to show me these things, I said, 
Lord, whence cometh man's redemption ? 

And He said, Even as the Son of man 
hath shown him to overcome evil with 
good. To love the Lord thy God with 
all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and 
thy neighbor as thyself, and fulfilling even 
the new commandment : That ye love 
one another; even as I have loved you 
that ye love one another. There is no 
country, land nor sea, that is not within 
man. He must needs £0 through them 
all, from Egypt to Jerusalem : for it can- 
not be that a prophet perish out of Jeru- 
salem. 

And I said, Lord, Thou saidst Thou 
would come again in power and great 
glory out of the clouds. Shall I see Thee, 
Lord, when Thou comest ? 

And He said, What thinkest thou 
God is ? 



TRUE MEMORY. 123 

I said, a Spirit. 

And the Lord said, How hath He made 
manifest His power? 

And I said, Lord, Thou teachest me 
how to answer: By His Word; His 
Divine Truth. 

And the Lord said, Now because of 
their wickedness is the Word, in order to 
be adapted to man's sensual understand- 
ing, become as a thick cloud, and their 
spiritual state was described in natural 
language that corresponded to their nat- 
ural history. But the time cometh when 
the Spirit will shine forth through it and 
ye shall see it, the world shall see it, 
even as thou sawest My Transfiguration. 
Then cometh the Son of man in power 
and great glory and all who will may see 
Him shining forth a living spirit in the 
letter of the Word. 

And He said, Marvellest thou ? 



124 TRUE MEMORY. 

And I said, They said Thou didst 
ascend up into heaven in a cloud and 
Thou wilt descend in a cloud. 

And he said, The Son of God was 
clothed with the flesh, the spirit of the 
Word with the letter, that sensual man 
might see and read. Peter and James 
and John had their spiritual sight opened, 
and did see Moses and Elias, and they 
would build for them an earthly taber- 
nacle. Thinkest Thou the Spirit desireth 
houses made with hands ? 

And I said, Nay, Lord. Tell me now, 
my soul thirsteth : Howbeit that in that 
day when the Lord shall come that two 
shall be grinding at a mill and one shall 
be taken and the other left ? 

And the Lord said, If one has lived 
according to the law and become spiritual 
that one would pass out of sight of mate- 
rial vision and, in their carnal minds would 
be taken, the other left. 



TRUE MEMORY. 125 

And I asked, Lord, was Thy ascension 
into the clouds typical of the enveloping 
of the Word in the cloud of the letter? 

And he said, What thinkest thou ? 

And I was silent. There was so much 
to learn, so much to know. 

And I said, Lord, " It is written, Thy 
kingdom shall be an everlasting kingdom." 

And he answered, Everlasting. Ever- 
lasting. 

And I said, Lord, shall this earth pass 
away ? 

And He said, as it was in the Beginning 
so shall it be in the End. For God is the 
Alpha and Omega. Man shall learn to 
know his God. He shall know that by 
searching he cannot find Him who holds 
his life like a frail taper in the wind. But 
True Memory shall lead him back. 

When he ceases to contend for power, 
dominion, wealth and fame ; when he 



126 TRUE MEMORY. 

ceases to think of personalities and thinks 
of principles ; when he abstains from evil 
in thought and act, and holds fast to that 
which is good and true, behold the earth 
shall become a world of beauty, a spiritual 
world once again. Sorrow, and sin, and 
pain and death shall be no more. As in 
the Beginning behold it shall be in the 
End. And the devil (evil) shall be chained 
one thousand years — Forever. 

And I said, Lord at the churches Thou 
saidst to my question if God was there, 
"Yea, oiitside" And at the market places, 
at the harbors and everywhere where the 
people were so busy thou saidst, " Yea, 
outsidcT 

And the Lord said, " They praise Me 
with their mouth but their heart is far 
from God." 

And I said, Lord, Thou saidst to Thy 
disciples " The kingdom of heaven is 
within you." 



TRUE MEMORY. 127 

And the Lord said, Yea, so God created 
man, spiritual man, the temple of the 
living soul, a receptacle to receive the king- 
dom of heaven. But man is the keeper of 
the door of the Inner Chamber of his 
soul. God loves to come to man, and 
dwell with him and work through him, 
but He forces Himself upon no man. 

And I said, " God so loved the world • 
(the Adam man) that he gave His only 
begotten Son that whosoever believeth on 
Him might not perish but have everlasting 
life. And He hath taken all these evils of 
the flesh and shown men how to overcome, 
and they — crucified Him. 

And the Lord answered, Yea, but that 
mighty love hath left heat enough in the 
world to warm the hearts of all who love 
Him and believe in Him ; and the truths 
I spake hath left a light that no false doc- 
trine can ever dim. There be Pharisees, 



128 TRUE MEMORY. 

and Scribes, and Sadducees, and Publi- 
cans, and Sinners, and Gentiles still upon 
the earth to-day, but every step of My life 
was made for a purpose and My footprints 
time cannot erase. Follow Me from Beth- 
lehem to Egypt and on even to Jerusalem; 
step in My footprints and ye shall have 
life eternal. If it bring to thee the crown 
of thorns, the cross, remember that the 
third day thou shalt rise again. God's 
work is never lost. For the remnant of 
the faithful He hath spared the world, and 
when the remnant is increased, when men 
realize how I showed them the very nothing- 
ness of this material world, they will seek 
another country, a spiritual kingdom, and 
following My footsteps shall not seek in 
vain." 

And when we had seen all the world we 
returned again. And sitting alone in the 
sunlight, with birds and flowers around it, 



TRUE MEMORY. 129 

I saw a beautiful little child. It was not 
afraid because it was alone, and when we 
approached it smiled. And Jesus, pointing 
to it said, Remember My words : " Except 
you become as a little child you cannot enter 
the kingdom of heaven." Go ye therefore. 
The path is clear, every step is given. 
How Adam fell into the sensual earth 
state, and how Christ hath taken up the 
flesh at the lowest plane and redeemed 
and spiritualized it. Behold, the foot- 
prints are still clear, the journey is mapped 
out. And when thou art weary retire to 
the Inner Chamber, and behold, I will 
stand at the door and knock and if ye 
open the door I will come and sup with you. 

And I said, Lord, abide with me. 

And I would ask of Him all the ques- 
tions which came in my soul, and I said, 
Lord, does the earth world grow better or 
worse ? 



130 TRUE MEMORY. 

And He said, Come ! 

And in the spirit He led me to a place 
in the Old World where there were instru- 
ments of torture, relics of the Inquisition, 
a cross. 

And I trembled as I looked upon them. 
And I shuddered, and said, Lord, why are 
they not destroyed ? 

And the Lord said, They are kept to 
answer your question to the flesh man. 

Then the world is not so wicked ? I 
thank Thee, Lord! How long will peopie 
murder, Lord ? 

As long as a State murders. The foun- 
tain can not rise higher than its source. 

And how long will they steal, Lord ? 

And the Lord said, As long as the 
nations do. 

And how long will they commit adul- 
tery ? 

And the Lord said, As long as the 
church adulterates the truth. 




And he said, " Come ! " 

And in the spirit he led me to a place in the Old World 
where there were instruments of torture, relics of the Inquisition, 
a cross. 

And I trembled as I looked upon them. And I shuddered, 
and said, " Lord, why are they not destroyed ? " 

And the Lord said, '' They are kept to answer your question- to 
the rlesh man." 



TRUE MEMORY. 131 

O Lord, show the rulers how to pray 
as king Solomon prayed. 

And the Lord said, The time will come 
when they shall seek first the Kingdom 
of Heaven. 

And I said, Lord, bear patiently with 
me, for I am only a little child. Tell me, 
do those who pass out of sight still work 
on earth unseen of men ? 

And he said, How readest thou the 
scriptures ? 

And I said, " He shall go before Him, 
speaking of John the Baptist, in the spirit 
and power of Elias, to turn the hearts of 
the fathers to the children, and the dis- 
obedient to the wisdom of the just; to 
make ready a people prepared for the 
Lord. And when the disciples said it was 
so written, Thou didst answer them that 
Elias had come and they did to him what- 
soever they listed ; and they knew Thou 
didst speak of John the Baptist. 



132 TRUE MEMORY. 

And the Lord said, Believest thou that 
I, when I go away, will come again as I 
have promised ? 

And I answered, Yea, Lord, Thou wilt, 
and be with us to the end of this earth life 
and through all eternity. 

And He stooped and touched me and 
said, Be it unto thee according to thy faith. 

And I answered, Amen and Amen. 

And I said, Lord, when shall that time 
be when the earth and man shall be as it 
was in the beginning? 

And the Lord said, When the spirit of 
Truth shall light every mind and every 
heart to know that there is but one God, 
and how to worship Him even as I have 
worshipped Him. Read what Moses in 
the law did write of Me ; what David in 
the Psalms did write of Me ; and all the 
Prophets ; remembering now that thou 
hast seen the Scroti, and read the Record ; 



TRUE MEMORY. 166 

that all the Word was clothed with lan- 
guage as it appeared to man in his fallen 
state. Then, remembering the Scroll and 
the Record, read again ; and thou shalt 
see the Spirit in the letter of the Word. 
In the mercy of God was all this done, as 
they would have rejected all had it not 
been written as it appeared to them. In 
the letter of the Word thou hast read of 
holy men praying for vengeance upon 
their enemies, but thou hast heard My last 
prayer : 

Father, forgive them, they know not what 
they do. When men can realize that in 
that prayer I left My last words in dying, 
for them to imitate ; when they can send 
forth that prayer, each for his enemy, soon 
will they be able to cry, It is finished, and 
yield up the flesh, natural life, for the 
spiritual ; and as the earth materialized as 
man materialized, to accommodate ma- 



134 TRUE MEMORY. 

terial man, so shall it spiritualize to 
accommodate his spiritual state. 

When man learns that as little children 
only can they enter the kingdom of 
heaven, that is, in truthful innocence, he 
will cease to spend his earth life in striv- 
ing through self-derived intelligence to 
steal God's power, even on a limited scale, 
and call it man's invention. He will, by 
spiritualizing himself, grow as a little child 
and return to God through True Memory, 
which is the only true knowledge of God. 
There is no education save that gained 
through the path of Recollection, the 
awakening of Memory. There is no true 
knowledge but True Memory. By His 
wisdom God made the world, as thou wast 
shown, and by His love He sustains and 
perpetuates the life of all things. By the 
spirit of His Truth He will lead man 
back to Him through a knowledge of how 



TRUE MEMORY. 135 

he wandered from Him. Was it not in 
loving mercy He shortened the days of 
the Adam man ? 

Remember the vision of Moses and the 
serpent, and the Magicians and their 
serpents. That vision was to teach that 
imitations, illusions, can deceive material 
man, however wise, from pauper to king ; 
but never can they deceive the spiritual 
man, for his eyes pierce through the 
appearance. 

The Magicians' serpents represented 
falsities and were apparently real. Moses 
had only one staff, the one serpent when 
he threw it on the ground, but this ser- 
pent represented spiritual wisdom, the 
good of life, and devoured all the evil 
about it. Thus shall it ever be with 
Truth and falsity. One Truth shall put 
ten thousand falsities to flight. 

The serpent represented the spiritually 



136 TRUE MEMORY. 

wise when it was spiritual, controlled by 
spiritual man through Love. Once used 
for deceit, or harm to his neighbor, it 
became the worse enemy of man. No 
Society was so wise in the spiritual world 
as that which controlled the serpent, 
which was their symbol ; none fell so low 
as they who used their wisdom as their 
own, for evil instead of good. 

And I fell upon my knees before Him 
and said, O Lord, I thank Thee. 

And He said, Be faithfiil and believe. 
Behold ! 

And I looked up again and the Scroll 
was once more illuminated, and the 
heavenly light that illumined it illumined 
my understanding also ; my whole being 
trembled and thrilled with that heavenly 
harmony and beauty. Man, spiritual man, 
a little lower than the angels, with True 
Memory of God, with all things possible 



TRUE MEMORY. 137 

to him through God's love, only to will to 
have, to think to know, to put forth his 
hand to enjoy all. No care, no sorrow, 
no pain, no death, but Love, Goodness, 
Truth, Charity. 

And I cried, Lord, let man reach this 
state. 

And He answered, As it was in the Be- 
ginning so it shall be in the End, for God 
is the Alpha and Omega. 

And I cried, Lord, Thou wilt not leave 
me, Thou wilt never forsake me ? 

And He said : " Again I say unto thee, 
according to thy faith be it imto thee. 

Amen and Amen. 



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